BREAKING NEWS: Mosley found guilty

Michael Mosley has been found guilty of first-degree murder. The verdict came in just after 3 p.m. We’re told a very dramatic scene unfolded in the courtroom after the verdict was read. According to staff writer Robert Gavin, Mosley’s mother, Wilma Mosley, fell to the ground screaming “Help me please.”

The jury of seven men and five women deliberated in Rensselaer County Court for more than six hours.

Schneider’s family prayed and cried before the verdict was read by Judge Robert Jacon: Guilty on all counts.

“Justice is served,” Schneider’s mother, Robin Ritrovato, said after the verdict.

Mosley was stoic as the verdict was read, but his mother, Wilma Mosley, cried out, “Help me please,” and lay on the ground, shrieking. Once loaded on a stretcher, she screamed, “no” as she was carried from the courtroom. Wilma Mosley testified her son was with her on the night of the murders.

Mosley now faces life in state prison without the possibility of parole for what a prosecutors called his “dirty little secret” since 2002 — a secret revealed when his DNA and palm print matched those found at the scene.

“The truth comes out in the end,” the prosecutor who handled the case, Christa Book, said afterward.

Jacon set sentencing for July 12.

Schneider, 18, and Frost, 27, were discovered stabbed more than 30 times each on Jan. 26, 2002. Schneider also had a broken nose and two black eyes.

Prosecutors theorized Mosley, an admitted former crack dealer and user, went to the home hoping that Holley, a drug dealer and Bloods gang member, would “front” him crack. They believe an enraged Mosley grabbed a kitchen knife and plunged it into Holley — then beat and stabbed his girlfriend when she ran out of her bedroom.

Mosley’s presence at the home the night of the murders was never known until last year, when his DNA matched a palm print.